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G3: GiR, Gridskipper, Geekdads

I'm having a lot of fun processing book orders. The floor of my living room is a carefully-designed collection of alphabetized order and shipping labels, numbered boxes of books, and the all-important List of 300. I should get through the first half today, and the remaining half should go out on Friday or Saturday. This probably means that all domestic orders should arrive before the end of next week. International orders seem to be taking about 2 weeks, depending on where they're going.

Since I'm too busy to come up with anything worth reading on my blog, I thought I'd direct you to some offsite stuff I've done this week, starting with this week's Geek in Review: Turkey Stuffing.

My new book was reviewed on Slashdot yesterday, and while I was writing
and reading comments, I noticed that the current Slashdot poll question
is, simply put, “Best Star Trek?”

I was actually surprised that in all the years Slashdot has been
bringing us news for nerds this is the first time this question has
been asked, and when I went to vote for TNG, I remembered a story I
liked to tell at conventions, back in the day.

In my first book, Dancing Barefoot, I wrote a story called
The Saga of SpongeBob VegasPants (which, if nothing else, is a lesson
to all you aspiring writers out there, and a reminder to the rest of
us: put some fucking thought into your titles, guys, because if you
don’t, you’ll be talking about The Saga of SpongeBob VegasPants for the
rest of your life.) The story is about my experiences at a convention
celebrating the 35th anniversary of the original Star Trek series. I’ve
excerpted it for the GiR before, but I’ve never shared the particular story that the Slashdot poll brought to mind until today.

I asked Wil, a fellow blogging.la
contributor of mine, to put together his own personal guide to LA. In
addition to listing popular destinations like Amoeba Records, LACMA,
and Dodger Stadium, and lamenting the loss of spots like the Pak Mann
Arcade, Wil let us in on some of his more original and admittedly geeky
favorites.

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G3: GiR, Gridskipper, Geekdads

I'm having a lot of fun processing book orders. The floor of my living room is a carefully-designed collection of alphabetized order and shipping labels, numbered boxes of books, and the all-important List of 300. I should get through the first half today, and the remaining half should go out on Friday or Saturday. This probably means that all domestic orders should arrive before the end of next week. International orders seem to be taking about 2 weeks, depending on where they're going.

Since I'm too busy to come up with anything worth reading on my blog, I thought I'd direct you to some offsite stuff I've done this week, starting with this week's Geek in Review: Turkey Stuffing.

My new book was reviewed on Slashdot yesterday, and while I was writing
and reading comments, I noticed that the current Slashdot poll question
is, simply put, “Best Star Trek?”

I was actually surprised that in all the years Slashdot has been
bringing us news for nerds this is the first time this question has
been asked, and when I went to vote for TNG, I remembered a story I
liked to tell at conventions, back in the day.

In my first book, Dancing Barefoot, I wrote a story called
The Saga of SpongeBob VegasPants (which, if nothing else, is a lesson
to all you aspiring writers out there, and a reminder to the rest of
us: put some fucking thought into your titles, guys, because if you
don’t, you’ll be talking about The Saga of SpongeBob VegasPants for the
rest of your life.) The story is about my experiences at a convention
celebrating the 35th anniversary of the original Star Trek series. I’ve
excerpted it for the GiR before, but I’ve never shared the particular story that the Slashdot poll brought to mind until today.

I asked Wil, a fellow blogging.la
contributor of mine, to put together his own personal guide to LA. In
addition to listing popular destinations like Amoeba Records, LACMA,
and Dodger Stadium, and lamenting the loss of spots like the Pak Mann
Arcade, Wil let us in on some of his more original and admittedly geeky
favorites.